Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

40 reviews

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Child death, and Pregnancy

◦ Body horror = Toenail injuries
◦ Drug abuse = Heroin

mandaraffe's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Cancer

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ainereads's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Abortion, Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

molly_hn's review

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

A perfectly imperfect metaphor for therapy; for therapeutic process and for human striving. The metaphors present will simultaneously haunt and inspire. I found this book in a YMCA charity shop and there is something serendipitous about that given the origins of the PCT. I've kept the book on my shelf for many years and have only just picked it up to read. Everything fell in to place... but a sort of slow falling. At first, the pace felt a little off with flashback that seemed to hold little relevance to the present happenings BUT the magic is in how these sequences actually resemble something true to human experiencing and human defence against experience: we do process in this way and it comes into place with greater and wider meaning in time. Meaning reveals itself slowly and is an ever shifting beast. I am not a hiker. I like nature in that all too millennial way-I know it exists beyond my walls; I know it benefits me; I bring it inside the walls in the form of houseplants... but I rarely have to time to be in and with it. That was not a barrier to appreciating the power and depths of this book. I wouldn't say the book is life-changing but it speaks to a process I feel is little represented in such a-true-to-individuation way. Favourite quote, which lacks meaning without context but perhaps you can insert your own

: 'I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.' (p.290)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Fairly graphic descriptions of the wounds from hiking (squeamish). Takes an unflinching look at trauma, specifically processing post-trauma.

Graphic depiction of death of an animal which does become material that is processed by the protagonist but is, regardless, a difficult scene to read

macaronsandmermaids's review

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Medical content

amandag's review

adventurous reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

muchadoaboutliz's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Violence, Terminal illness, Sexism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Cursing

kendallreadsbooks's review

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Grief, and Animal death

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Vomit

kaitemistry's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

Such a painful, yet poetic, memoir of a broken woman seeking renewal in nature. Tough read emotionally, but very approachable. Cheryl writes from the heart in a raw and honest manner- truly brave. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Sexual content

hillarydanielle's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

Largely centered on the author/protagonist’s journey dealing with grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Infidelity and Violence